Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-10-07
Literary Notes.

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every reader in sending five cents
to ID. Lothrop Company, Boston,
for n specimen copy OF Wide
Awake.
The baby's nose does not often
receive the attention to which it
is entitled. A thoughtful article
by DIR. Kitchen, in the October
BABYHooD, shows why it should
be both useful and ornamental,
and how it may be made SO, if not
already.
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"Why, you know a baby's foot
has no shape!" said a4sglssman in
q shoe store to an inquffer for an
infants shoe thBt would fit. An
illustrated article in BABYHooD
October shows the fallacy Of the
r idea, which is firmly held, appa-
3 rently, by all manufacturers.
Y Probably he meant" says the
r writer, "that foot is without form
: and void until it has received the
3 benefcent care of the shoemaker.
a SCIENCE, the wee ky newspaper
n of popular science, is now ap-
n preaching the sixth year of its
r existence, and is meeting with a
g rapidly widening circulation. Any
5 one wishing to have at hand reli-
= able information Of the progress
e in all those matters in every day
o life upon which science is now
r thI owing SO much light will find
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= r. S. Peale & Co., Chicago, have
,, ~ now in press a new edition (the
~ eleventh. of "Raonarok. The Ace
= :. of Fire and gravel" by Ignatius
>, Donnelly. In this work the cele.
brated iconoclast attacks the old
established ice theory and endeav,
ors to show that the Drift Age witt
70 its vast deposits Of clay and grav,
: ell, its decomposed rocks and its
= = great rents in the face of the globe
u was the result of contact between
is the earth and a comet. A notable
d part of the book is its relation tt
IL the bible. 1t claims that the story
of the destruction of Sodom ant
Gomorrah by fire falling from
heaven, is simply one of the tradi
=, tions of the Drift Age; that the
VI "fall of man" and his expulsion
from paradise means the change
which came over the condition oi
Iy the world and mankind when tht
it pre-glacial climate-during which
W as these geologists prove tropica
h plants grew in Spitzbergen anc
is Greenland-gave way to the hor
If rors of the Glacial Age; and tina
at the Book of Job is description
s, of the same great event.
< In the forefront of the Octobe.
d Wide Awake is tale of adventure
S, shipwreck, smuggling and piracy
" the hero of which was a boy full
lie of Robson Crusoe-a real boy--s'
he says-and the boy is Maurice
Thompson who writes it.
Next comes a narrowing tale o
a kidnapper, the pitcher-plant
Here is a sentence: "The inside o
of the pitcher is lined with stiff
" bristle pointed downward. It il
" easy enough to walk over then
A. with your six legs (supposins
Or you are a hy) going downward
" but the minust YOU try to turl
: back you find yourself imbrisoned,
r" Grant Allen writes it.
10 Charles Egbert Craddock'
~ story comes to an end; and Little
it Rosy wasn't Jerry'sl began il
tv the August number.
: The Catskill Bear Story is yer,
ID abort. SO was the wrestle; ant
at the bear got away!
re The series of papers telling hov
" baking is done takes the baker t
= Enrobe in search of railwa,
le capital.
" The President of Wellesle.
is College lately resigned, who
- thought Miss still under thirt.
ie has been one,of tine most efficien
O. of college presidents, is the
r subject Of a biographical sketcl
is with portrait.
" In contrast with the crue
le account of the pitch-plant there il
as learned paber on the Spots and
" Games of Animals by c. T
le Holder.
D. What is his Disease.